“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of my students in my, “F*cked Up to Fixed Up” workshop are given an elastic band to wear around their wrist in the first week and they have to snap it whenever they are having a negative thought. A negative thought is any thought that consists of judgement, gossip, self-deprecation, resentment, fear, complaining or any negative thought. If you are reading these words, I encourage you to take this life transformative “mental diet” that was taught to me years ago by one of the forefathers in the new thought movement, Emmett Fox. After my students snap the elastic on their wrist they gently remind themselves they are breaking the habit of negative thinking, they replace the thought with affirmations like:

-It is safe to be me.-I communicate with ease and joy-My mind is gentle and harmonious-I love and approve of myself-All is well right in this moment, right here, right now.-The Universe has my back-Everything happens for my highest good.-I am a magnet for positivity.-I am gentle with myself. I am doing the best I can right now.-I live in the present moment joyous and free.-I am grateful for this lesson.-I am getting better everyday in every way.-Life loves me.-I am surrounded by wonderful people in my life-This is just a moment in time through my journey. -Everything is eternal and everlasting.-I bring peace to every aspect of my life.-Life just gets better and better and better.

Bringing subconscious habitual thoughts to your conscious awareness can be shocking at first because most people have the epiphany of how many negative thoughts they have in one day. People often have 60,000-70,000 thoughts in one day and many will have the same thoughts (approximately 90%) the next day and the next day and the next day. Then there often is no change, just the same patterns over and over and over again. Choosing to move from the same familiar thought to new thoughts will change your life forever. Those new thoughts will create new feelings, new choices, new behaviors and new results. By taking part in this gentle mental diet your world will start to rock and roll, similar to an earthquake. Hold on and breathe through it and when your world stops rocking you and your world will become a vibrational match to your new thinking.People will ask you what you have been doing because they will notice a big change within you, which will emanate out into your surroundings. You will be now moving from the old model of cause=effect to causing effect. This is the quantum model.

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More tools for your toolshed. Toolbox will not suffice during this 7 day transformation. Here are some more modalities for your week:

ENDGAME-

Before you get out of bed spend some time mentally rehearsing how you would like your day to unfold. Visualize the outcome using your imagination and using all your senses. See, smell, touch, taste and feel the outcome desired. This can also be called the endgame.

SEGMENT INTENDING-

Throughout the day, pause. Choose to decide how your morning is going to go. Visualize it. Then, pause and decide what thoughts you are going to think in the afternoon. Lastly, declare that evening is going to be spectacular. (this tool was taught by Abraham-Hicks)

FLICK IT FAST-

In Emmet Fox’s book on the seven day mental diet he portrays a negative thought like a burning ember. Let’s pretend you are sitting in front of a fireplace and a burning ember landed on your sleeve. If you flick it fast it does no harm, but if you keep the ember on your sleeve it can really reek havoc.

So if you have that long standing resentment or hurt you have been nursing for awhile, it is time to reach for forgiveness. Flick the hurt fast before it starts affecting your mind, emotions, organs and then your soul.

ACT AS IF-

As you move through your day, act as if your prayers have already been answered. Count your blessings all day long, as if they have shown up.

LAW OF SUBSTITUTION-

We can only hold one thought at a time. So if you are having a barrage of negative thoughts, begin crowding them out, with plethora of thoughts of things you are grateful for. Remember that if you tell yourself not to think of a pink pig, that is exactly what you are thinking about.

Actively ignore the negative and immerse in thoughts of wellness, wholeness, peace and prosperity.

REFRAMING-

No matter how bad it is, there has got to be at least 1% of a positive in the situation. For example, my client has ALS but he has money to pay for someone to help bathe him, feed him and dress him. Yes, the situation is dire, but thank heavens he has the means to pay for assistance.

Reframing is not pretending that the event was different then it really was, because you don’t want to lie to yourself, but there is always a positive. No matter what, if you are still breathing.

MAKE GRATITUDE A HABIT-

The quickest way to hack into happiness is through gratitude. Make gratitude a habit all day everyday.

Before you get out of bed, during your mental rehearsal, bathe in gratitude, for your bed, pillows, plumbing, electricity, paved roads or a hot shower. Then all day long be grateful for your job or your ability to look for a job. Be grateful for your legs to walk and eyes to see and your ears to hear. Marinade in gratefulness.

These profound tools will push and pull you forward through your seven-day mental diet and there will be no looking back. You and your life will change forever. You will literally “change your personality which will then change your personal reality” as Dr. Joe Dispenza so cleverly writes. Give this one experiment a try and then you can join me in practicing the gentle/ mental diet for the rest of your glorious life.